The point of my comment wasn’t to ignore your very plausible explanations. I expect there are many people that suffer from those. The point was to point out th

The point of my comment wasn’t to ignore your very plausible explanations. I expect there are many people that suffer from those. The point was to point out that epistemology works best when you make a good faith effort to understand how other people arrived at their conclusions. I have spent a lot of time recently trying to understand why many people are convinced about things like New World Order / Global Cabal / QAnon / Soros, Stop the Steal, various vaccine/COVID topics, multiple religious beliefs, and even why Putin believed he should “protect” Ukraine (assuming good faith). It’s far easier to bridge misunderstandings if you understand their motives, intent, desires, and the chain of facts that inform their worldview.